Hi everyone, I wanted to start my channel by talking about my favorite books
It seemed an appropriate topic for my first video
The first one that I wanted to talk about is The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
And this is a very short book
It's basically about a guy that wakes up one day
and realizes that he has become an insect.
Literally
And what this book is about, I didn't realize this the first time that I read this,
but it became clear after reading some thoughts on it
that it was about disability.
and how abled people look at the disabled.
as if they were insects or disgusting, people that can't produce
or don't deserve to have a life as good as other people's.
It seemed very historically accurate at the time [this is a ridiculous comment since it's set in its own time]
Since this was published around the Victorian times, although, since it wasn't England
I'm not sure if I can really call it Victorian.
But in those times it was considered
embarrassing for someone to be disabled.
and a family with a disabled member would
hide them if people came to visit
and in general they would try to hide them, at home.
and act as if they didn't exist.
And generally now we still have some
views on the disabled that are still represented, I think, in this book, so
it's one of the reasons why I like it.
This is really just about why I like these books rather than reviews.
The second one is Watchmen.
This is actually a graphic novel.
What really stayed with me from this book was the characters, because
they were very well-written.
In the sense that, at first... I mean, my feelings on this book
changed a lot while I was reading it.
because at first I thought that a couple of the characters
were just unlikable
and that I didn't really care what happened to them anyway.
well one of them was already dead by the start of the book, but
the other one was more or less the main character.
I'm talking about Rorschach and Edward Blake, of course.
But the issue with Rorschach was that at some point,
when the whole backstory came in,
I started to really feel for him.
which really changed my mind about everything that was happening [in relation to him, anyway]
so it was a great decision from Alan Moore, to give him that sort of story to back it up.
You really end up understanding how he
was a great character because he was meant to be
a hypocrite, and not exactly a good person, someone that the author actually didn't mean to
represent a good person, this whole book is basically an anti-hero book.
and it's sort of a deconstruction of the whole superhero idea.
I even ended up crushing, kind of, on Edward Blake, but that's another story.
So this book stands out to me in particular because I don't tend to
Like those characters that are "bad" or hard to like.
This characters were so well-written that it was difficult to not like them, actually
Because I read some reviews on this book before reading it and a lot of people said
that the characters were hard to like because everyone was an asshole
and it was really just a couple of them, and they weren't such assholes once you understood-
well, one of them, honestly Edward Blake is still an asshole no matter what, but
but Rorschach is a bit more understandable, in a way, I mean he still annoys me...
And I think that another reason why the whole asshole-character thing worked
was because other characters grounded them
and made you understand that they weren't meant to be looked [upon] as if they were cool
or good people, role models of some kind.
The next book is One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This book is pretty long
It's basically about a family and different generations
and how the deal with the issue of incest among them.
And the whole incest thing is the main theme of this story but there's a lot of things
that happen, there's no particular plot,
it's just a lot of stories, and there's a lot of humor in this book.
I would say, because the title may give you the idea that there's not a lot of it going on,
Cause you know, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" sounds like something long and depressing,
but I didn't find it that way at all,
I thought it was very enjoyable to read, especially because of the writing style.
It was not as flowery as I expected, it was more or less simple.
which is my taste, pretty much.
And some people say that the characters are hard to distinguish
because between the generations they tend to have the same names,
but since everything is going on more or less chronologically,
it's not that difficult to tell who is who.
And you can find family trees on the internet and they'd probably help.
This book starts out not very interesting, honestly,
it gets that magical realism vibe at maybe 50 pages and
and then things start to get very interesting.
And once you get past that I think you start to really enjoy this, and what to pick it up.
Some people say that this is difficult to get through,
I had to read it for school but I still felt inspired to read it, once I had gotten past 100 pages [especially].
And the next one is a book that I think
just very impactful, and that's the main reason why I'd consider it one of my favorites.
It is 1984 and this book is
I mean you guys probably know what this book is about at this point so
I won't go too far into it
but I just want to say that it seems
very natural for this book to end this way
[duh]
The things that go on are things that you really can feel would happen in real life
if we lived in a world like this.
And I think that's one of the things that make this book so disturbing, the fact that if feels
so human, the characters feel so human
that you just can't deny that maybe the world would
at some point get to be like this.
The last book that I want to talk about is one that I might consider to be
my very favorite among all of these.
It is Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
This is also long.
It took me a while to read it but the thing is that the prologue and the first chapter
are really entertaining and very surrealist
even in comparison to the rest of the novel.
This whole book I would say is surrealist.
It is an existentialist book, I think.
But those two parts just have this vibe of things that would happen in real life, but
said in a different way.
We wouldn't normally think of racism as white people
making black men fight with each other [not literally, anyway]
And that whole image that it gives is much more surrealist than the other things that are going on
in the book, that just feel a little bit more grounded and like it's the world that we know
exactly as we know it.
This book has a lot of parts to it, many passages that
may seem like they're just meant to be part of the story,
but they really have some other meaning to them.
I'm sure there's a term for that
In the first chapter there was one of the first times where I could see myself,
that I could see how I fit in the story, in the narrative,
and it was during the Battle Royal part.
A white woman comes in, and the other guys are about to fight
and the narrator talks about how some of the white men
were threatening them with some sort of aggression
if they looked at her
and then there were some that threatened them if they didn't look at her.
So I guess it was a way to talk about how black men are supposed to
desire white women but they weren't supposed to actually have them
Or the way in which white men looked at white women in relation to black men or whatever,
Okay? I'm not an expert in racism
but there were many parts of this story in which you can really see how Ellison was talking about the
relationships, how white people look at black people, basically.
Or how they interact.
The synopsis actually calls this book "sardonic".
I would say that I didn't find it to be angry
I found it to be stoic, maybe it was the writing style.
because the writing seemed very show-don't-tell, which is great,
and it's very simple writing, in a way,
especially for the fact that I would still consider it somewhat poetic
even though it does kind of seem like he was just telling you how things went on
and you could still feel how the were wrong, you could still feel pissed for the narrator
Even though he wasn't telling you
directly that he was angry [in any way]
which is really cool to have in writing.
So I think this is a great book, you should definitely read this, at least the prologue and first chapter
to understand why I like this book so much
Although I think it is worth it to read the whole thing
But yeah, I love this book, I should re-read it soon.
and that's basically everything that I wanted to talk about today.
If some of these books are your favorite, you should tell me, or if you have some
particular opinion on these books or what I said, you should def tell me in the comments.
So yes, have a good day or night and we'll see each other in the next video.
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